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[Vibrant General] sombionix:
Yeah, reading is good and so is putting threads in the appropriate place. This doesn't belong in the development section, this belongs in the 'general' section.
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
Ouch... Yeah, like I mentioned, DON'T play with that firmware unless your ready to deal with a Really Really Pretty Paper weight. While that firmware does appear to be Vibrant firmware, I don't know who's had there grubby mits on it. I posted it because its one heck of a head start for anyone looking to develop the Vibrant ROM. I guess this makes for an expensive lesson learned. But honestly I wouldn't worry about it to much, I can't even brick this phone with my best efforts. And I get the feeling with everything thats now available to devs, someone will provide you with a solid fix. Probably not me at the moment though, as I'm still beating on this thing. LOL... I just had an AT&T ROM running on it. But it barfed all over that thing.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Yeah, after re-reading everything after taking a break and going to a friend's house (with G1 in hand, granted I love my G1, btu I want to be using my vibrant) I realized it look like you have been through a lot so I will adventure on my own and the forums... I doubt I even want to know all the details of what you have been doing... back to a lot of doing the same thing over and over again and swearing I guess...
[Vibrant General] MS_Guru:
@degeneration Ahhh... See that's where your mistaken. This is fun. I love pushin my toys til they break. And when they do, I fix them and go right back to it. I to have a G1, with some serious mileage on it. I was one of the first to own a "G1 Brick" during the whole Danger SPL thing. So the fact that its still alive means that yes, that bad boys on its second motherboard. :D
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Well it would be more fun if I wasn't so excited about this phone to have it unusable so quickly... Back to normal would be great by now :( I can't even install update.zips... back to the old drawing board I guess...
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
This may be really stupid, but what would happen if someone installs a Galaxy S (the international version) firmware on the Vibrant?

I know the buttons are different (hm, is this why they are different)?
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Well it's what I did, so it's at least somewhat stupid.

The problem I came across was that it would not accept my sim card so I couldn't use it as a cellphone.

Well that and the volume buttons get flipped, and there is no "select" button in the recovery mode.

I used the Russian version and it connected via wifi and switched my language to English, but I could not get it to find any networks. I tried a bunch of stuff, but I am definitely not the brightest.

And now that I got it back to the US firmware, I can't boot into the OS (although I can get to the vibrant system recovery and it acts like it is booting fine, it just isn't)
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Since you are already in this, maybe try flashing some of the other Euro or Asian firmwares.

Some work better than others, like I9000XWJFF (it works best on my Galaxy S) -- a lot of the others don't get full Market access, it may be correspond to how the phone is seen by the network.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
That was my thought, but now suddenly my computer refuses to see the phone... Well it sometimes sees it, but won't let me do anything to it, and usually I just get a whole new icon of a phone, 2 dots, a ! in a yellow triangle, 2 more dots, and a pc... I can get into the download screen but that's it... I have no idea what I did to make this worse, as far as I could tell the only thing that happened was I rebooted... hmmmm...
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Hm, so you (1) start odin3, (2) then put the phone in Download mode, and (3) then plug it into the PC?

Does odin3 show anything after you plug in the phone?

If it doesn't, maybe try uninstalling the phone's driver from the PC, then plug it in and windows should install new driver. Then unplug it, go to the Download screen, start odin3, plug in the phone into the PC....
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Bah... I don't know if I was being dumb, or it was coincidence but I don't care, I got odin to see the phone finally.

However windows has trouble when I plug it in telling me it failed to install the device, and when I go to flash it odin3 does nothing.

Well actually, it does this

<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/004> factoryfs.rfs

And then does nothing... no bars light up, phone or laptop...

Considering the com wasn't 4 when this was working previously, I am going to try different USB ports I suppose... Although windows not successfully recognizing it anymore has me worried... full reboot and trying this again...

EDIT: Maybe I spoke to soon. I reboot windows (phone completely disconnected, battery out even) and as it boots up it tells me my device was not installed properly... I have no idea what apparently changed... so that's confusing as all hell... whatever...
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Yeah, it's done this to me at times. Flash again.

Also, what .pit file are you using? the one that ends on 13 doesn't work with the G5 firmware, and will prevent the phone from fully starting. Try using the s1_odin_20100512 file from the SGS forum.

Good luck.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Did you ever know that you're my hero?

It is flashing at the moment, so at least that's a step in the right direction... I also found this thread

http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7192637

which has that pit file and info on that weird icon I was seeing. Just incase someone else gets stuck like me... Wow... after reflashing with that pit file windows sees the phone again...

EDIT: Yup, back to where I was, but now I can try new foreign roms to see if I can have a phone until a good US one is available...

EDIT 2: So I am now on JG5... the device works, but not as a phone. The sim card is still not visible to the phone (and just to be clear, and works just dandy in my G1 still) but everything else pretty much works... Besides the fact that I can't do a flash except through odin3 since there is no home button on my device to do things in the recovery menu (makes me miss flashing my g1 with the shortcut keys :( )

I still might call radioshack to see if they will/can exchange the phone even though I ordered it online...
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
I am starting this post early... which means I am going to be kicking myself, but I think I did it!

HOLY CRAP I DID!

Give them enough tries and even a retard can do something right once in a while I guess...

So I used 512 pit. t898uvje8 PDA. Didn't flash phone (as I noticed the PDA seems to have a modem.bin in it). and did JG5 (or, it's labeled JG4 but comes with JG5) CSC.

Now my phone is back to running like a vibrant, and I am back on edge at least... I am getting TERRIBLE reception though, but at least I am getting reception...

Actually, it's just my standard steel roof bad reception, I got it up to 3g... so it seems like things are working... signed into google... I can get into the market... downloading an app... now I think I will just try to flash that dump that is floating around here and see if I can get sims back (I don't know why... I just need to torture myself more I guess)

EDIT: Oh yeah, and when booting like this, email force closes twice and then anytime you try to open it... but gmail ends up working fine
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Glad you got it working :)

Use K-9 for email client - I like it better than what comes with the the Galaxy S anyway.

But with the JG5, do you get full Market access? Search for Wounderradio and see if it shows up -- if it doesn't, you don't.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Doesn't look like I do... but I seem to have enough of the market that I might hold off messing with it more until I have nothing to do for a whole day. Or heck I will just download stuff from the net :P

I am timid at the moment to go flashing it anymore than I already have as I didn't even get sufficient time to show it off!

But thanks for pointing that out, I will have to figure that out eventually (or wait for someone else to do the hard work and make a good stable rom to flash)...

Can anyone indulge my newbness and tell me what the CSC file even is? I am guessing PDA is pretty much the OS, and MODEM is the radio... but I am probably wrong about that too...
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
Check this FAQ out:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596

BTW, are all your buttons working with JG5?

For full Market access, JFF was the latest where everything worked for me.
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Sweet, thanks I should have just searched...so any way all my buttons have been working fine.with euro firmware the volume buttons were mixed up.but now I just need a us tmobile csc I guess...

I will have to check out jff
[Vibrant General] gthmcty1:
That just recently happened to me and I just returned form the Tmo store (after I went through the process of making sure that I talk to Tier 2 support and notate it on my account) went into the store and said I spoke with CC T2 tech and they should have notated on my account that I took all the standard procedures of trying to correct the problem and they chalked it up as a defective unit, in-store person said hey no problem I have these in stock took all about 15 minutes and I was walking out the store with a new unit (granted I just picked it up 2 days ago)
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
Well like I mentioned, I didn't trust myself or the stores or something so I preordered from radioshack... but it is working again so I will hang on to it (also I got it via online not a retail store so there is a good chance I would have to ship it back and wait... that is a no go if I can get around it)

Currently everything is somehow working ok-ish... definitely ok enough to get me until a real US mod is released (not holding my breath for official 2.2 anytime soon).

I lost sims 3 (big whoop, but losing stuff is losing stuff :( ) but if that's not out there for download somewhere on the net, it will be I'm sure... well, mostly sure...

Oh yeah, but some of the apps are going a bit goofy, but then again I also got root manager and started ripping out some of the samsung preinstalled crap... and I have the feeling the radio is a sucky one because my reception, where as usually not great in my house, is really bad... but it might just be me holding the phone the wrong way :P

Other than that I haven't found much wrong with it... so considering how much I have F'ed with it, I am happy with it currently... oh, and I rooted it obviously...
[Vibrant General] gthmcty1:
Glad to hear you got it working..even if it is somewhat!
[Vibrant General] al74:
We realy need Nandroid working on this phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kthejoker20:
trying to figure out what it is.

It's sucking a lot of power on my evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oreoOozZz:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+gp_timer
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kthejoker20:
Fail

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=android+gp_timer

So anyone want to answer the question now...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gregalous:
Did you try this yourself first? The first link on there is this thread.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helfire1:
It's funny this post is the first result returned...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oreoOozZz:
lol i guess that went over your head, it was a joke...

seriously though, i have no idea what it is and i was just posting that up as a joke since this thread was the first thing that came up on the search. best of luck in finding out what it is though my man.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMemphisE:
So....what is it? Aside from itself. It we define "gp_timer" as "gp_timer", we will obviously be correct, but this seems insufficient an answer as it does not further a true understanding of what gp_timer truly entails. Is it a timer? Is it a general practitioner? What does it do and why does it cause between 33 and 60% of wake ups as reported by powertop?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] H3g3m0n:
I have the same thing showing up in powertop on my mt3g with CM6.1(nightly)

According to the top of the kernel source code

It's "OMAP2 GP timer support."

Which after some more Google got me this showing that the GP stands for general purpose and it can be used to capture wireless frames.

Basically it's a probably a bit of code that will be polling hardware continuously to see if anything interesting happened. If it does then it can wake up something to handle that.

Main question is if it would still work if it was set to poll half as often, which could help with standby battery life. I'm guessing no, otherwise it would have been set to less.

It might also only be running as often as it is, because your connected to the phone checking the power usage...
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Hungry Man:
When I go to spare parts it says "Fancy rotation animation"

when it's checked is it on or off? IT's sorta confusing lol I'm not sure how to check if it's on or off, same thing with fancy input animations.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] es0tericcha0s:
Not sure about your first question as I don't seem to have that option in my spare parts app for kaosfroyo, but for the fancy input animations - it is "normal" when it is unchecked, but when you check it then it says "fancier" animations.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thricemin:
There are many good roms out there but they come mostly on black. :mad:

Is there anyway I can changed them to a white themed rom? Metamorph maybe?
[XPERIA X10 General] big_raji:
I'm a former user of an HTC Touch Diamond. Thanks to these forums, I was able to customize nearly anything and everything on that device. I retired my Diamond about a month ago when I got my Xperia X10, and I found myself missing my Diamond.

Xperia Pros:

The Screen! The display is huge and amazing!

Android market. So many great apps to choose from.

Android OS. The stock apps and launchers seem really great to use. Lots of features and eye candy out of the box.

Xperia Cons:

Micro-USB / Connector Cover. It has made my 6 mini-usb cables and charger useless, and the cover is annoying to open.

Touch Screen. I found myself annoyed by the capacitive screen. I'm a guy, and I don't feel the need to have soft moist hands. The capacitive screen has given me so much grief, while I never had any problems with any resistive screens in the past.

Battery. I know every complains about battery life, but it was pretty much the same as my Diamond. The only difference is that my Diamond has a huge extended battery available for purchase.

Android market. Tons of "little" apps, but no real powerhouse apps that fit my own needs. I found I needed to download/buy 3 different apps that did the job of one Windows Mobile app.

Voice Dialing. Where is it? My city just enforced some crazy cellphone laws, and I really need this. It sucks on the Xperia. Big time.

Diamond Pros:

Fantastic Apps! S2U2 is amazing. It's a lockscreen that gives you so much access to viewing info (email, sms, etc) without a risk of unlocking your phone accidentally. Magicall let me have push email without the battery use, as well as many other fantastic calling and SMS features.

OpnMarket. Tons of great apps available from FreewarePPC.

Resistive screen. So much better for me than the capacitive screen.

Amazing customizability. Not just the ROMs, since I'm sure the X10 will get a few soon, but everything seemed to be easier to customize and change in Windows. Maybe I just need to learn more about Android.

Diamond Cons:

Tiny tiny tiny screen. This is the only reason I didn't go back.

Windows Mobile stock OS really sucks, and needs all the apps to add the eye candy and features.

Sometimes sluggish with all the hacks, patches, and customizations.

Strangely enough, I find myself sorely missing Windows Mobile. I really wish I could at least find an app exactly like S2U2 on Android. I've tried a few lockscreens, and they don't even lock the device properly. They seem to be just homescreen replacements. Lack of a proper voicedial app on the Xperia is also a huge con. Any other recent Windows Mobile converts feel the same way?
[XPERIA X10 General] phuangk:
Go put Android 2.2 Froyo onto your HTC Diamond, this might help you to kill some time while waiting for Android 2.1

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=711692
[XPERIA X10 General] big_raji:
Well, I tried 1.6 awhile back on my Diamond, and it was unbearably slow. Besides, that would be the opposite of what I want right now. I think I'd prefer Windows Mobile on my Xperia. ;)
[XPERIA X10 General] :
You are crazy.
[XPERIA X10 General] iom_jack:
i agree!!! you're CRAZY!!!!:)
[XPERIA X10 General] ijob:
as someone who has come over from windows mobile 6.5 and owning a touch diamond 2 and htc 2, i can tell you, you are crazy.
[XPERIA X10 General] gaolinde:
i have a xperia x1

and yes one more vote for "you are crazy"=..=
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
No you're not CRAZY!

100,000 Apps for Android? I think that smartphone users today don't understand that App is short for Application and they're being pretty liberal calling most of what's available an Application.

The simple fact that Google doesn't offer a fast and easy solution for Outlook sync is plain stupid. Even the iPhone will sync with Outlook. The Google "Cloud" sync takes far more user input than WinMo does so it's far from effective.

When WinMo 7 is up and running I'll be putting this Android fiasco behind me.

P.S. if you're a teenage girl then Android should be right for you.
[XPERIA X10 General] Tjotte:
Battery life on the diamond with extended battery and latest stock rom was total and utter **** if you ask me, it was the most useless batterylife of any device i've ever experienced and the diamond overall... ok i did like it when i first got it but that phone felt outdated within 3 months, i love my new x10 and my battery is great, even amazing compared to diamonds. In fact i could drain both the original and the extended on diamond within 32h and the x10 battery ticks way over 48h now with normal useage
[XPERIA X10 General] proatiku:
I want my baby back baby back baby back, I want my baby back baby back baby back,I want my baby back baby back baby back. Your delusional dude.
[XPERIA X10 General] kitsVA:
I agree to some of it. The lousy not so touch friendly UI of WM never really bothered me as we get to use it less. I love the level of customization that can be done to WM like Panels, Today screen, smart dialer, etc.

I think most of the current generation mobile OS got the luxury of faster processors, more memory to feel more fluid. Each never version is basically trying to catch up with WM capability but with touch friendly UI.

I think the failure story of WM wouldn't have been this bad if only Microsoft invested time to improve their default browser years back and made the menu's, buttons, etc more bigger so they are more user friendly.

I played with my friends HD2 and like it a lot except for the browser.
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
First of all I bought an Android device because I never thought they were that great but felt it was unfair to criticise without having used one a for a period of time.

Now that I am an owner of several WinMo devices and one Android device I feel I can point out the differences fairly – Sorry in advance to the Android Fanboys.

For someone that is more interested in a useful device for business applications and uses a Windows based PC’s then WinMo is the clear winner. For someone that wants to have a toy for social networking then Android is the clear winner.

I’m sure there are many people on the planet that are so important that they need to Facebook and Twitter/Buzz every single move they make during the day and hopefully they use Latitude so everyone knows exactly where this tremdously important event took place.

Bottom line is that they are 2 different platforms that cater to 2 different groups of people. One isn’t better than the other, they’re just different. WinMo users read newspapers, Android users read comic books. Neither is better than the other, they’re just different.

I’ve spent 2 weeks looking at “Top 10” and “Must have Android Apps” blogs as well as spending time on AppBrain. I’m not saying there aren’t any useful Android Apps but they certainly don’t number in the thousands or even the hundreds. Below is what I found to be somewhat useful but I can still do better on a WinMo device running 6.1 pro.

Astro File Manager

BetterKeyboard

ChompSMS

eBay

GDocs

Imap Weather

IMDB

IP Cam Viewer

K-9 Mail

MyRogers

NetCounter

Newsrob

Quick Reboot

Remote VNC

Roboform

Speedtest.net

SwiFTP

TD Bank

Titanium Backup

Weather Bug

XDA

Wikidroid for Wikipedia

P.S. Using Remote VNC on the Android is like torture. On the WinMo device I can login, do a few quick things and logout while sitting at a red light. To do the same thing with the Android VNC viewer it would be faster to drive home and use the keyboard.
[XPERIA X10 General] GPdhillon:
I agree with you, I had omnia(on offense love my x10 as well) with custom rom running wm 6.5. I think android is not quite there yet and application is not the professional like spb apps...

I miss my mobiler controlling the phone from pc and syncing contacts with outlook instead google and then third party app to sync with outlook which does half ass job of it
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
My point exactly
[XPERIA X10 General] Nimche:
Just enter the discussion, I still own my HD2 with custom ROM. As Izzy said, if you are a business person WM is the best for you, Even after I purchased Moxier with Widget and stuff its not anywhere close to WM even 6.1. WM is more solid and it is because it has been around for longer and android might be there one day. But reason I chose Android was to go with a different approach and I still like it and not regretting it. As you start developing more things and gets updated to higher Android Version you may become more satisfied.

Part of our problem is SE by locking the phone with their junk which is not useful to all of us. In WM phone you have option to go either with WM solid or their customized UI.

At the end, I am not a person stick to my phone for any longer than 6 to 10 months so in case I need to move to another platform then no problem. Right now, I don't want to go back to 6.5 even with missing option on Android.
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
I change a lot too so I'm looking forward to WinMo 7. It may be a nice solution that helps out the business users and still has the social networking aspect that the others are interested in. That Dell Lightning looks pretty dam hot!

I wouldn't be so down on Android if they had out of the box support for Outlook sync.

I'm so sick of ALL of these guys drawing a line in the sand and refusing to support any other features from other suppliers. It's the user that suffers.
[XPERIA X10 General] GPdhillon:
Winmo7 is the reason I mo

ved to android I think wm7 is going to start where android was year ago. Breaking the compatibility with wm6.5 stupid thing Microsoft did also taking out copy paste, multitasking the last stra
[XPERIA X10 General] HunteronX:
I feel the same too. I used to have a HTC Universal, and there were so many power apps/applications (Whatever you want to call them), that Android doesn't have yet. I didn't even use most of them, as I didn't have a need for them, but at least there was a choice available.

I think Android may soon have this 'choice' that I'm talking about, but I do understand what you mean (@ big_raji).